Kimono
1920–1939
- Medium
- Silk, stencil-printed warp and weft (heiyo kasuri) plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave and silk, plain weave
- Dimensions
- 130.2 × 159.2 cm (51 1/4 × 62 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
cotton (textile)Modernismprintingsilk (textile)weaving - printedlining (process)Textileweavingplain weaving
About
This eye-catching kimono is composed of vertical bands of diagonal stripes and wavy lines of varying thicknesses in a variety of bright colors. Although the lines are blurry when viewed close-up, they sharpen as the viewer moves away from the piece.